Associate Professor of Law Director, Native American Law Center
Professor Anderson is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Native American Law Center. Before joining the law school, he was a Senior Staff Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, Colorado and Anchorage, Alaska for twelve years. He litigated major cases involving Native American sovereignty, hunting and fishing rights, and natural resources. From 1995-2001 he served as an appointee of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt where he provided legal and policy advice on a wide variety of Indian law and natural resource issues. He teaches Indian Law, Public Land Law, Water Law and first-year Property Law. Professor Anderson was selected by students as a Philip A. Trautman Professor of the Year in 2005 and again in 2007. In 2007, he received the Native Justice Award from the Northwest Indian Bar Association. He is also a co-author and member of the Board of Editors of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005) and is co-author of American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, which is now in press. He is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (Bois Forte Band).
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Assistant Professor of Law Director, Tribal Court Criminal Defense Clinic
Professor Whitener graduated from the UW School of Law in 1994 and went to work as a tribal attorney for the Squaxin Island Tribe (of which he is a member) where he represented the tribal government in treaty rights defense, gaming and enterprises, and infrastructure development. In January 2000, he left Squaxin Island to take a position with the Northwest Justice Project's (NJP) Native American Unit in Seattle. At the NJP he headed the Indian Law Clinic, a joint project between the NJP and the UW School of Law. In 2002, Professor Whitener left the NJP to take over the Tribal Court Criminal Defense Clinic, a project of the UW School of Law Native American Law Center.
Professor of Law Stimson Bullitt Professor of Law
Professor Rodgers began teaching at the UW School of Law in 1967, spent seven years at Georgetown University Law School, and returned to the UW in 1979. Professor Rodgers specializes in natural resource law and is recognized as a founder of environmental law. He teaches Environmental Law, and Oceans and Coastal Law. Professor Rodgers is actively involved in the Environmental Law and Litigation course, as well as the Berman Environmental Law Clinic. He has produced the first volume of his two-volume treatise entitled Environmental Law in Indian Country (Thomson West 2005) and co-authored the recently published The Si'lailo Way: Salmon, Indians and Law on the Columbia River (Carolina Academic Press 2006). He has been actively involved in the Exxon Valdez "reopener," including publishing The Exxon Valdez Reopener: Natural Resource Damage Settlements, and Roads Not Taken, in the Alaska Law Review. The topics of his seminars have included Puget Sound, the Duwamish River, Hanford, sacred Native American sites, and forest practices. Professor Rodgers was selected as the UW recipient of the Bloedel Professorship of Law from 1987-92. In 1999, Professor Rodgers was selected as the first UW Stimson Bullitt Professor of Environmental Law and is serving his second five-year appointment. He is admitted to the bar in New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia and has appeared in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Indian tribes. Professor Rodgers recently served on the committee for Defining Best Available Sciences for Fisheries Management with The National Academies. He completed a six-year term as a member of the Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Academy of Sciences.
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